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and emphatically, the united states of america. but we are not going to call the shots. >> you have written that all this debate about american exceptionalism conceals a flight from reality. >> well, i think it does. we began the 21st century with a balanced budget. for the past few years now, we've had a trillion dollar deficit. we began the 21st century with a military that we were not only persuaded was the best in the world, but with a military that we were certain could win any fight quickly, achieve victory. we've been engaged in war for more than a decade now and we have no victories that we can claim. we began the decade with an economy that seemed to be cooking on all cylinders. and that for the past several years now has been in deep recession with large numbers of americans, we're still what, over 8% unemployment without work, millions losing their homes. what does this signify? what do these bits of evidence signify? well, they signify something. and what they signify is not that the american century continues or that c
and emphatically, the united states of america. but we are not going to call the shots. >> you have written that all this debate about american exceptionalism conceals a flight from reality. >> well, i think it does. we began the 21st century with a balanced budget. for the past few years now, we've had a trillion dollar deficit. we began the 21st century with a military that we were not only persuaded was the best in the world, but with a military that we were certain could win any...
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in the united states. she was among the first female journalists to report from the war torn streets of baghdad. george has covered five wars and right after the terrorists attack on september 11th he drove all the way from miami to new york to report on the tragedy firsthand. once he even asked for a vacation to cover the war in afghanistan. an assignment that at the time the network deemed too dangerous. he's had very public encounters with venezuela's hugo chavez, with former cuban dictator fidel castro. the president of bolivia stood up after only six minutes of questioning by him. both ramos and celines both moderated the first bilingual presidential debate. and most recently with the meet e candidates forum. but perhaps they are best known for defending the rights of immigrants by reporting on their plight and giving a voice to the voiceless. >> maria is the most recognized hispanic female journalist in the united states. in fact, "the new york times" called her the voice of hispanic america. among h
in the united states. she was among the first female journalists to report from the war torn streets of baghdad. george has covered five wars and right after the terrorists attack on september 11th he drove all the way from miami to new york to report on the tragedy firsthand. once he even asked for a vacation to cover the war in afghanistan. an assignment that at the time the network deemed too dangerous. he's had very public encounters with venezuela's hugo chavez, with former cuban dictator...
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we're not in the united states. alexis de tocqueville, the frenchman who wrote the famous book "democracy in america" came to the united states- >> 1830's. >> right. and he was flabbergasted. and he said famously that in france where you see the state, in america you see a private association. i myself, i mean, this is kind of a joke, but i don't hear jesus go to matthew the tax collector and say, "matthew, you need to collect more taxes." he's speaking to people individually. and it has to begin at that level, with obviously some governmental role in some of these issues. >> in the bible, as you say, when jesus speaks of helping the poor, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, taking in the sick, he says, "you do it." he doesn't say, "go and ask caesar or go and get the senate to pass taxes." and when jesus looked at the rich man, whom the bible tells us he loved, he said, "go, sell what you own and give the money to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven." it was to be a personal act of sacrifice. do you
we're not in the united states. alexis de tocqueville, the frenchman who wrote the famous book "democracy in america" came to the united states- >> 1830's. >> right. and he was flabbergasted. and he said famously that in france where you see the state, in america you see a private association. i myself, i mean, this is kind of a joke, but i don't hear jesus go to matthew the tax collector and say, "matthew, you need to collect more taxes." he's speaking to people...
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united states is doing." you know, indefinite detention. the patriot act. you know, increase surveillance powers. "if the united states can do it, they certainly can't criticize us." and this happened in a number of countries. so, you know, we knew we had to look to ourselves in order to speak to the world. so we began to work with the aclu, pen did, to put together these public readings from these documents. >> you can't believe some of these documents that they've uncovered. and, you know, in a way it's a tribute to this country that the freedom of information act actually works. that you don't actually need wikileaks. like, there is an actual legal way that documents that are quite damaging to the people who committed these acts of atrocity. >> that's something that the book really chronicles is that this was not a case where everybody agreed with these programs. on the -- >> with the torture? >> right. >> you mean, people inside government? >> absolutely. >> there were dissenters? >> in the military, and
united states is doing." you know, indefinite detention. the patriot act. you know, increase surveillance powers. "if the united states can do it, they certainly can't criticize us." and this happened in a number of countries. so, you know, we knew we had to look to ourselves in order to speak to the world. so we began to work with the aclu, pen did, to put together these public readings from these documents. >> you can't believe some of these documents that they've...
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and that actually challenges the whole economic setup of the united states. and of western capitalism. it's very, very threatening. and i think that that's why you've had the billionaire class. you know, the minute barack obama -- i would actually say rather gently suggested that the millionaires and the billionaires should pay a little bit more, you had immediate cries of class warfare from the plutocrats, and very emotional. you know, there was an activist investor who sent an e-mail to his friends, the subject line is, battered wives. and in the e-mail, he compares mse and his fellow multimillionaires to battered wives who are being beaten by the president. he actually uses those words. >> and i thought it was really interesting, in your book, how you pointed out that bill clinton himself responded to obama's criticism by saying, you know, i would have done it a little bit differently. i think, you know, you can't attack these people for their success. and i think that's very relevant, because if you go back in time it wasn't always this way, but i think t
and that actually challenges the whole economic setup of the united states. and of western capitalism. it's very, very threatening. and i think that that's why you've had the billionaire class. you know, the minute barack obama -- i would actually say rather gently suggested that the millionaires and the billionaires should pay a little bit more, you had immediate cries of class warfare from the plutocrats, and very emotional. you know, there was an activist investor who sent an e-mail to his...
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kitchen was the united states, living room was mexico. walter cronkite was the ambassador to both countries. >> welcome. this is pledge time for public television, when we remind you there are programs here unlike anything else on tv. programs such as this one. there is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the united states d mexico. a vast swath of terrain, a long and tortured history, and an endless stream of humanity both separate and join our two countries. it's as complex a coupling as you will find anywhere. from brownsville and matamoros on the gulf of mexico, the border runs along the rio grande river to intersect with the continental divide. where it turns toward tijuana and san diego on the pacific ocean. 1,969 miles snaking through desert and desolation, dividing towns and cities marked now by stretches of steel and concrete fence, with infrared cameras and sensors, national guardsmen, and border patrol agents. well over 100 million people cross this border every year, one way or another. one
kitchen was the united states, living room was mexico. walter cronkite was the ambassador to both countries. >> welcome. this is pledge time for public television, when we remind you there are programs here unlike anything else on tv. programs such as this one. there is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the united states d mexico. a vast swath of terrain, a long and tortured history, and an endless stream of humanity both separate and join our two...
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it was the united states, recognizably the united states with significant inequalities of wealth, but everybody was participating in prosperity and seeing their incomes rise. and then after the mid-1970s, we start moving towards a distribution of income that looks more like that of a third-world oligarchy. it looks more like mexico or brazil or russia. income inequality that statistics on income inequality now suggest that inequality is higher in the u.s. than it is in egypt. and that's quite a journey from where we were when i was growing up. >> right now i think we're seeing the kind of bitter fruit of winner-take-all politics because this financial crisis was not an act of god or work of nature. it was brought on by poor decisions that were made in washington and on wall street. yes, there's a global dimension to this, but a big part of it was failures of domestic policy. you know, if you look to our northern neighbor, canada, it had nothing like the same degree of banking crisis the united states did. and that's partly becau it had much more effective regulations of the financial
it was the united states, recognizably the united states with significant inequalities of wealth, but everybody was participating in prosperity and seeing their incomes rise. and then after the mid-1970s, we start moving towards a distribution of income that looks more like that of a third-world oligarchy. it looks more like mexico or brazil or russia. income inequality that statistics on income inequality now suggest that inequality is higher in the u.s. than it is in egypt. and that's quite a...
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>> i am the president of the united states of america. clothed in immense power. >> the movie and its performers are remarkable, but much of the film's power, its eloquence and percepti perception, its observation on the unchanging nature of governance comes in its screen play based in part on the book "team of rivals." recently, the script received the new york film critics circle award, one of what will doubtless be many honors. tony first came to most people's attention with the epic pla "angels in america," a devastating account of the a.i.d.s. epidemic while it was at its worst. tony received both a tony award and the pulitzer prize for drama as well as a primetime emmy award for its television adaptation on hbo. that was some 20 years ago. in the years since, tony's reputation as one of our most accomplished and sometimes controversial modern play writes has only grown. welcome. >> thank you. >> you said you worked six years. how did you go about the research? >> i just started reading. we started with doris' book. i was curious to
>> i am the president of the united states of america. clothed in immense power. >> the movie and its performers are remarkable, but much of the film's power, its eloquence and percepti perception, its observation on the unchanging nature of governance comes in its screen play based in part on the book "team of rivals." recently, the script received the new york film critics circle award, one of what will doubtless be many honors. tony first came to most people's attention...
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>> the things about the united states that intoxicate people. i mean, if people understood, i think, the people i write about are enacting a love letter to america, not an evil assault, this is hope. you know? for example, this sounds like i'm not answering your question, but i'm trying to answer it the way my mind works. there's a scene in "into the beautiful north" where the people come to san diego. and they see lawns for the first time. that was me. i didn't see lush green lawn until fifth grade. and when we went up to claremont, san diego, claremont, little blue-collar community, i saw these green lawns. and i thought, oh, my god, americans are rich! americans are -- i had never seen anything that beautiful in my life. as the stupid little lawns. because they were so green. because we could throw water away. so, you know, you could come to a place where your children can be healthy, where you can have access 24 hours a day to stuff that you can't have elsewhere, where you can, you know, lead the good life. yeah, that is expressed in physica
>> the things about the united states that intoxicate people. i mean, if people understood, i think, the people i write about are enacting a love letter to america, not an evil assault, this is hope. you know? for example, this sounds like i'm not answering your question, but i'm trying to answer it the way my mind works. there's a scene in "into the beautiful north" where the people come to san diego. and they see lawns for the first time. that was me. i didn't see lush green...
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>> we saw children with -- in the united states of america, with swollen bellies, with running sores that wouldn't heal -- >> have they had any lunch? >> who had something meager for breakfast if that, were not going to have any lunch, whose refrigerators were empty in their houses. they had been forced off the plantations as a political matter because of the fear of increasing black political power. >> the governor of mississippi then was pressuring the white house to cut off assistance to the children's program that was going, because he feared the people working in it, the poverty, anti-poverty workers would encourage the civil rights movement. do you remember that? >> absolutely. that's why we went down there. this was in the spring of 1967. and the mississippi political hierarchy saw the head start program as a political threat. a group of doctors went down there a month or two later and examined hundreds of children. and found, not just pernicious anemia but rickets, and kwashiorkor and marasmus. diseases that you only find in the most underdeveloped of countries were there in
>> we saw children with -- in the united states of america, with swollen bellies, with running sores that wouldn't heal -- >> have they had any lunch? >> who had something meager for breakfast if that, were not going to have any lunch, whose refrigerators were empty in their houses. they had been forced off the plantations as a political matter because of the fear of increasing black political power. >> the governor of mississippi then was pressuring the white house to...
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i mean if we allow in the, one of the most pro-union states in the united states, wisconsin, them to strip public service workers' union rights away, that's a domino that's going to have things fall in the wrong direction. if, on the other hand, we hold that governor and some of his cronies responsible, and he loses his job because he came after working class people, the dominoes can fall in the other direction. and it certainly will embolden working class people. and i think this is a, it's really a crucial -- already the shot's been fired over the bow. like they're going to have to do everything they possibly can for that guy to hold onto his job. and they thought this was going to be a cakewalk. it's not a cakewalk. we're still here. >> you've been very critical of many things that happen in america and that america does. what do you like about this -- >> oh, are you kidding me? are you kidding me? like, what i, like i said, like from those people who have, you know, from day one, from the earliest slave rebellions to, you know, to the women's rights movement. you know, the people
i mean if we allow in the, one of the most pro-union states in the united states, wisconsin, them to strip public service workers' union rights away, that's a domino that's going to have things fall in the wrong direction. if, on the other hand, we hold that governor and some of his cronies responsible, and he loses his job because he came after working class people, the dominoes can fall in the other direction. and it certainly will embolden working class people. and i think this is a, it's...
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did we become the united states of denial? i read a report in the journal nature by a team of 22 scientists warning in the lifetime of these high school graduates, earth could reach a tipping point as we put more and more pressure on our life support system, our crops, fisheries and clean water the diversity of species that enable us to be here, the planet could be plunged into uncharted territory from which there's no return. these scientists are parents and grandparents, too. and they reject despair. the reports's author told interviews my bottom line is that i want the world in 50 to 100 years to be at least as good asits now r my children and their children. it's not too late to change course, he says. we are a clever species. we have the solutions to these problems in our grasp. but for the denial. i snap out of my revery. i hear our grandson's name being called, see him handed his diploma watch the whole class rise and think, they just might do it. just might pull us back from the edge. get us on the right track again. t
did we become the united states of denial? i read a report in the journal nature by a team of 22 scientists warning in the lifetime of these high school graduates, earth could reach a tipping point as we put more and more pressure on our life support system, our crops, fisheries and clean water the diversity of species that enable us to be here, the planet could be plunged into uncharted territory from which there's no return. these scientists are parents and grandparents, too. and they reject...
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they crossed the border into the united states and in desperate search for work. they were lured into the produce fields. and they send what money they can, usually about $100 a month home to support their wives and children. >> and they make $11,000, $12,000 -- >> at best. >> it's brutal work, physically. >> yeah. >> but they're also exposed to all sorts of chemicals and pesticides. and it's very hard to show the effects because as these workers age, you know, they're bent over eight, ten hours a day. so they have tremendous back problems. and by the time they're in their thirties, the crew leaders, they'll actually line up in these big parking lots at about 4:00 in the morning, the busses will come. they just won't pick the older men. and so they become destitute. and they go back home physically broken. and it's hard to tell, you know, how poisoned they've become, because they're hard to trace. but clearly that is a big issue. they talk about rashes respirato, yoknownot ing able to breathe, coughing, it's really, you know, a frightening window into the primacy
they crossed the border into the united states and in desperate search for work. they were lured into the produce fields. and they send what money they can, usually about $100 a month home to support their wives and children. >> and they make $11,000, $12,000 -- >> at best. >> it's brutal work, physically. >> yeah. >> but they're also exposed to all sorts of chemicals and pesticides. and it's very hard to show the effects because as these workers age, you know,...
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states and realized there was this black, white grid in the united states, as opposed to being multi-racial, as most of the rest of the world is. >> people are talking about the fight within the republican party over their future. but there's a fight already starting within the democratic party between the progressives and liberals and the clinton democrats who look upon themself as centrist. and there're a lot of articles as we speak appearing on the web and in the press about obama's really a centrist. he's really a corporate democrat. he is, and william saletan and "slate" magazine has a piece saying he is, in fact, a moderate republican at heart. what do you think about that? >> i think, on the one hand, that's true. the moderate republicans still exist, they're just democrats now. and that's why the republican party has been distilled to its extreme. second, it certainly is true that, as you've written about and broadcasted about, there's a huge cleavage in the democratic party between essentially the wall street democrats and the more progressive democrats. and that's an important iss
states and realized there was this black, white grid in the united states, as opposed to being multi-racial, as most of the rest of the world is. >> people are talking about the fight within the republican party over their future. but there's a fight already starting within the democratic party between the progressives and liberals and the clinton democrats who look upon themself as centrist. and there're a lot of articles as we speak appearing on the web and in the press about obama's...
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it used to be that education was the pride of the united states. and it was certainly the pride of many states like california. i was recently talking to someone who was a leader of a state, and we were talking about poverty. and as he listened to safety net programs for the poor, he mentioned public schools. it really caught me. i said, public schools, that's become a safety net program? i thought public schools were for everybody. but as they have become associated with people who are poor and of color, we are abandoning the public school education. that is about race. and we have taken men who are important for community, and we've created basically a legacy of absence in communities by pulling the men out and putting them in prison. in numbers that are unprecedented. our rate in this country is the largest in the entire world. and the disproportionate incarceration of black men in particular but a growing number of latino men absolutely makes theoint that race is a driver there. race has become so embedded and baked in that people can work arou
it used to be that education was the pride of the united states. and it was certainly the pride of many states like california. i was recently talking to someone who was a leader of a state, and we were talking about poverty. and as he listened to safety net programs for the poor, he mentioned public schools. it really caught me. i said, public schools, that's become a safety net program? i thought public schools were for everybody. but as they have become associated with people who are poor...
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it is a unifying experience in the united states, in the american context. but many people will argue that the cultures of africa, many cultures, many tribes, many nations celebrated tremendous achievements by the standards of the world, of the 15th, 16th, and 17th, even into the 18th century before colonization. so depending on what it is you are trying to convey to a child, you can tell them that before the white man came, if you go to timbuktu, you will see a thriving civilization. you will see the invention of languages that preceded the lingua franca of the world today, which of course is english. that's one way of inspiring people. and that's one way of defining black history. but alongside that very trajectory that you just described, the one of struggle, of pain, of repression, is one of survival, of triumph, of creativity. and so part of telling the story of black history is to celebrate that ability to exist in a society that is working against you, is attempting to demonize you, and still be able to triumph over it, still be able to produce origin
it is a unifying experience in the united states, in the american context. but many people will argue that the cultures of africa, many cultures, many tribes, many nations celebrated tremendous achievements by the standards of the world, of the 15th, 16th, and 17th, even into the 18th century before colonization. so depending on what it is you are trying to convey to a child, you can tell them that before the white man came, if you go to timbuktu, you will see a thriving civilization. you will...
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wall street was telling the president of the united states what was going to happen. within two years, glass-steagall was deader than a doornail. with the stroke of a pen, president, bill clinton, signed legislation that eliminated its protections and gave citigroup the green light. john reed retired from citigroup a year later, after losing out in a power struggle with sandy weill. he went on to serve as interim ceo of the new york stock exchange and now chairs the board at m.i.t. as wall street collapsed in 2008, reed watched in disbelief, and began to have second thoughts about it all, including the wisdom of repealing glass-steagall. you were a key player when traveler's and citicorp merged. how big was this to you at that time? >> it was not that big. you know, it clearly was an important transaction from our point of view. and it was hopefully -- it turned incorrectly -- but it was hopefully going to transform sort of the opportunity space in which the bank operated from a business point of view. our customers were saying, "hey, we don't want to come to you for
wall street was telling the president of the united states what was going to happen. within two years, glass-steagall was deader than a doornail. with the stroke of a pen, president, bill clinton, signed legislation that eliminated its protections and gave citigroup the green light. john reed retired from citigroup a year later, after losing out in a power struggle with sandy weill. he went on to serve as interim ceo of the new york stock exchange and now chairs the board at m.i.t. as wall...
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. >> for the first time in centuries the president of the united states has officially declared himself an enemy of traditional marriage between one man and one woman. >> you are witness to a modern tale of resurrection. a second-coming. the bible speaks of lazarus, raised by jesus from the grave to walk again among the living. ralph reed, too, has been returned to life, political life. but he goes lazarus one further. lazarus was a poor man. reed is rich, and he just keeps getting richer from mixing religion and politics. and that's a story you don't want to miss. at age 33, ralph reed was the christian right's wonder boy. anointed in a 1995 "time" magazine cover story as the "right hand of god" for spinning the trust of conservative christians into political gold. it was reed who built the christian coalition of televangelist pat robertson into a powerful arm of the republican party. >> as religious conservatives we have finally gained what we have always sought. a place at the table, a sense of legitimacy and a voice in the conversation that we call democracy. >> in 2000, reed helped
. >> for the first time in centuries the president of the united states has officially declared himself an enemy of traditional marriage between one man and one woman. >> you are witness to a modern tale of resurrection. a second-coming. the bible speaks of lazarus, raised by jesus from the grave to walk again among the living. ralph reed, too, has been returned to life, political life. but he goes lazarus one further. lazarus was a poor man. reed is rich, and he just keeps getting...
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of the united states of america. over $9 trillion. they write half of the mortgages in this country, and two-thirds of the credit cards, okay? three out of the four large financial institutions that we bailed out because they were too big to fail are today bigger than they were before we bailed them out. now, if this were teddy rooselt re preside ofhe united states, what do you think he would say? he'd say, "break these babies up." let's create a system where the financial institutions actually invest and lend money into the productive economy, where businesses are trying to produce products or create services, not the kind of casino, this horrendous, ugly casino that we have on wall street. >> but senator durbin, the number two democrat in the senate said to me and to others that the banks, wall street, those six firms now own the senate. >> that's right. that's all absolutely right. >> how are you going to, how are you going to get a reform the, when th -- >> well, that takes us back to another issue that dick and i and others are w
of the united states of america. over $9 trillion. they write half of the mortgages in this country, and two-thirds of the credit cards, okay? three out of the four large financial institutions that we bailed out because they were too big to fail are today bigger than they were before we bailed them out. now, if this were teddy rooselt re preside ofhe united states, what do you think he would say? he'd say, "break these babies up." let's create a system where the financial...
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we've got people in the united states who own things, but the plant is overseas. and in many of the big products that we assemble, automobiles, you've got parts coming from all over. so did the jobs all go overseas? or in a glal enomy, would some of it have gone overseas and some of it come here? now, once you make that inference, you can tell why the democratic response and the ad are both telling you a partial truth. some of that money did create jobs overseas, but some of that money created jobs here. the ad only tells you half. the democratic response only tells you half. but since you know the economy is global, you know there is some truth in both. >> it true, by the way, that fact checkers forced mitt romney to back away from his claim that he had net -- net increased jobs by 100,000 while he was running bain capital? >> yes. and when people say fact checking doesn't matter, here's a case study. fact checking often hits a brick wall. that is, the campaigns believe that they can restate so often with evocative ads that they override it. but when it is persis
we've got people in the united states who own things, but the plant is overseas. and in many of the big products that we assemble, automobiles, you've got parts coming from all over. so did the jobs all go overseas? or in a glal enomy, would some of it have gone overseas and some of it come here? now, once you make that inference, you can tell why the democratic response and the ad are both telling you a partial truth. some of that money did create jobs overseas, but some of that money created...
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back in 1984, ronald reagan was incumbent president of the united states. he was running for reelection. his campaign had to raise money for the party even though he was taking the federal grant as everyone has until this year in the general election. ronald reagan attended in that year four fund raisers. >> compared to -- >> 221, so we have a president -- this is not an attack on obama. we have a president who is to some extent, not doing their job because they have to be off fund-raising. the romney people felt the same way. romney was heard to be complaining in his campaign that he couldn't go out and meet voters and do what he thought he had to do as a can at because he had to spend all of his time in closed rooms of wealthy people to fund raise in order to get his ads up for his campaign. he couldn't campaign. there's a great irony here and so you have two issues here. one is the time that the president is spending doing this rather than his job and what happens to a can at when the only people they meet and talk to and take questions for for months on
back in 1984, ronald reagan was incumbent president of the united states. he was running for reelection. his campaign had to raise money for the party even though he was taking the federal grant as everyone has until this year in the general election. ronald reagan attended in that year four fund raisers. >> compared to -- >> 221, so we have a president -- this is not an attack on obama. we have a president who is to some extent, not doing their job because they have to be off...
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of iowa. >>> rick santorum is the former united states senator from pennsylvania who won the iowa caucuses in january before losing the republican nomination to mitt romney. >>> the irony of a group of judges taking the one bulwark of freedom, the constitution. tdesty the second bulwark of freedom, virtue, is truly a corrupt act. the people of iowa have an opportunity to say n we are no longer going to stand by and let the elites, who believe they know best how to write the laws and change the constitution, run roughshod over the rights of people. >>> iowa is often a bellwether state for national politics. so when out-of-state partisans and out-of-state money combine to try and take down and take apart a highly esteemed court in the heartland, you never know who's next. that's why we wanted to talk to a couple of iowans who have organized the non- partisan group justice not politics. they're fighting to protect the independence of their supreme court against efforts to vote justices off the bench. sally pederson is a democrat and the state's lieutenant governor from 1999 to 2007. she's pas
of iowa. >>> rick santorum is the former united states senator from pennsylvania who won the iowa caucuses in january before losing the republican nomination to mitt romney. >>> the irony of a group of judges taking the one bulwark of freedom, the constitution. tdesty the second bulwark of freedom, virtue, is truly a corrupt act. the people of iowa have an opportunity to say n we are no longer going to stand by and let the elites, who believe they know best how to write the...
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corporation, we do not act in the best interest of the united states." well, it is a u.s. corporation, but what he meant is, they have shareholders all over the world, they have investments all over the world, and it's not his job to do things that are good for america, it's his job to do things that are good for his international shareholders. >> but under citizens united, he can contribute as much money as he or his board wants to on, secretly, on projects that may not be in the national. >> right. again, this is the nasty combination of the really, the incredibly dangerous accident of citizens united that allows this unlimited money and the other cases that have allowed unlimited contributions with a lack of disclosure. because the presumption, the reason the court said this wouldn't be corrupting is we would know who was giving and could hold them accountable. and we don't. >> it's like water running downhill. the old clichÉ, it finds a way around every obstacle you put into place. and that's what's happened to campaign finance reform. >> well it's a good clichÉ, it'
corporation, we do not act in the best interest of the united states." well, it is a u.s. corporation, but what he meant is, they have shareholders all over the world, they have investments all over the world, and it's not his job to do things that are good for america, it's his job to do things that are good for his international shareholders. >> but under citizens united, he can contribute as much money as he or his board wants to on, secretly, on projects that may not be in the...
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why did we write the native americanut of the story. >> first of all our experience in the united states was already learning from experience in south america where ingious populations in various parts of the caribbean island and various parts of south america were first rye sis stand to the encroachment of europeans. eventually showed such val ler against the inkreefing encroachment there with was no sense. so their fighti irit ki of create add feeling of con tradition of nobility, that these were a people who were willing to die to protect their way of leaf. it was disease that wiped them out at the owned testify day. that's what got the better of the indigenous population. so in that regard the pure devastation that intended to the settled europeans in the americas eventually gave birth to population laws which was akin to that but w done by y of germ warfare and really in an unintended kwa. >> did anyone ever tell you that chief justice jon jay said those who own the country should govern it? >> no. it reminds me of a thing that george walker bush said. if you tomato own anything --
why did we write the native americanut of the story. >> first of all our experience in the united states was already learning from experience in south america where ingious populations in various parts of the caribbean island and various parts of south america were first rye sis stand to the encroachment of europeans. eventually showed such val ler against the inkreefing encroachment there with was no sense. so their fighti irit ki of create add feeling of con tradition of nobility, that...
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. >> the united states of alec. and perfidious and passionate poetry from philip appleman. >> money buys prophets and teachers, poems and art. so, listen, if you're so rich, why aren't you smart? >> funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york. celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. carthufoundati, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate s
. >> the united states of alec. and perfidious and passionate poetry from philip appleman. >> money buys prophets and teachers, poems and art. so, listen, if you're so rich, why aren't you smart? >> funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york. celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth...
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they are corporate moguls, who by the divine right, not of god, but the united states supreme court and citizens united decision are buying politicians like so much pricey horse flesh. all that money pouring into super pacs, much from secret sources, merely an investment in the best government money can buy should their horse pay off in november. all this can numb the soul and chill the arthur of the most devoted citizen exposed to the buying and selling of our democratic birthright. but there is an antidote. on our website billmoyers.com, we'll link you to a vision of hope. sarah robinson, a senior editor of alter net.org has written "new rules for radicals," ten ways to spark change in a post occupy world. check it out. my hunch is you'll cease to weep over our sinking ship of state and start working to repair it. coming up on "moyers and company,"ita dove and the poems that tell the story of america. >> suddenly there were these voices that came out, ordinary town folk voices. what he says in this poem is where are these voices? do they diappear? hey disappear when we shut the book?
they are corporate moguls, who by the divine right, not of god, but the united states supreme court and citizens united decision are buying politicians like so much pricey horse flesh. all that money pouring into super pacs, much from secret sources, merely an investment in the best government money can buy should their horse pay off in november. all this can numb the soul and chill the arthur of the most devoted citizen exposed to the buying and selling of our democratic birthright. but there...
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states of america." apparently he gets his talking points from fox news, rush limbaugh, or the discredited right-wing rocker, ted nugent. but this time i shook my head in disbelief. 78 to 81 democrats, members of the communist party? that's when the memory hole opened and a ghost slithered into the room. the specter stood there, watching the screen, a snickering smile on its stubbled face. and i did a double take. sure enough, it was the ghost of senator joseph mccarthy, the wisconsin farm boy who grew up to become one of the most contemptible thugs in american politics. >> there is that small, closely-knit group of administration democrats who are now the complete prisoners, and under the complete domination of the bureaucratic communistic frankenstein which they themselves have created. they shouldn't be called democrats, they should be referred to properly as the commiecrat party. >> it was the early 1950s. the cold war had begun and americans were troubled by the soviet union's rise as an atomic supe
states of america." apparently he gets his talking points from fox news, rush limbaugh, or the discredited right-wing rocker, ted nugent. but this time i shook my head in disbelief. 78 to 81 democrats, members of the communist party? that's when the memory hole opened and a ghost slithered into the room. the specter stood there, watching the screen, a snickering smile on its stubbled face. and i did a double take. sure enough, it was the ghost of senator joseph mccarthy, the wisconsin farm...
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. >> daniel patrick moynihan, united states senator from new york, said democrats are the party of the government. >> brooks said that's the problem. liberals still believe in government when most americans don't. he quotes one poem that reports only 10% of americans trust government to do the right thing most of the time. that makes it hard for liberals to call for more government. >> i agree liberal, the party of government. you -- look, an individual in society who is not well born, not born with all kinds of advantages, needs help to -- to be able to self-able chutize through the education system, through communerganizations to get through college it costs to go to a private college at $50,000 a year. with people who work hard just to -- to make a living, it's not easy, and they need a hand from somewhere, particularly since we now live in an age of global capitalism when corporations have no, feel no sense of responsibility at all to local communities, or even the country themselves. so if you want to -- if you want to give people genuinely equal opportunity which is what disappoi
. >> daniel patrick moynihan, united states senator from new york, said democrats are the party of the government. >> brooks said that's the problem. liberals still believe in government when most americans don't. he quotes one poem that reports only 10% of americans trust government to do the right thing most of the time. that makes it hard for liberals to call for more government. >> i agree liberal, the party of government. you -- look, an individual in society who is not...
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>> all over the world, and in the united states and one of the juries that gave us an award said that, "we hope this film holds the scottish government and mr. trump to account for one of the worst environmental crimes in recent uk history." your golf course. >> what's the next question? >> trump out! trump out! trump out! tru out! trump o! trump out! >> he's a fine example of 1% of the population controlling 99% of the, the power and influence. >> is it your custom to become a protagonist in your films? >> no, it's not. i had never -- i didn't set out to be in this film in the first place. i wanted to record more of what was happening to the environment and to local people. to document it. because nobody seemed to be trying to get to the truth. and, to me, that's the whole point of being a documentarian. trying to get to the truth of the story. and so i didn't intend to be in the film. it was only, you know, when i was arrested and put in jail whilst making the film that i becameart of the story. th clip you' jusseensn't in the filitself. it was recorded recently at the scottish parl
>> all over the world, and in the united states and one of the juries that gave us an award said that, "we hope this film holds the scottish government and mr. trump to account for one of the worst environmental crimes in recent uk history." your golf course. >> what's the next question? >> trump out! trump out! trump out! tru out! trump o! trump out! >> he's a fine example of 1% of the population controlling 99% of the, the power and influence. >> is it...
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states senator from pennsylvania bought and paid for by the railroad tycoons and oil barons. they could count on him to deliver the goods. "i believe in the division of labor," he told his wealthy paymasters. "you send us to congress, we pass laws under which you make money, and out of your profits you further contribute to our campaign fund to send us back again to pass more laws to enable you to make more money." boies penrose would be right at home in politics today. crony capitalism -- using government to deliver favors to your pals in the business world -- is alive and well. the rest of us pay for it. we pay for it at the grocery store because of sweetheart deals in congress for the dairy industry and sugar lobby. we pay for it at drugstore because politicians rented by giant pharmaceutical firms block competition. we pay for it in lowered returns on pension plans bailed out banks speculate with taxpayer money. we pay with the loss of jobs because of trade deals bought and paid for by multinational companies. we pay in tax rates higher than those of the billionaires who
states senator from pennsylvania bought and paid for by the railroad tycoons and oil barons. they could count on him to deliver the goods. "i believe in the division of labor," he told his wealthy paymasters. "you send us to congress, we pass laws under which you make money, and out of your profits you further contribute to our campaign fund to send us back again to pass more laws to enable you to make more money." boies penrose would be right at home in politics today....
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states government, the federal reserve, the treasury, banks, private institutions, as well, to prevent us from really learning the full extent of this. and so here we are, we're still uncovering things that we didn't know back in 2008, 2007. so no, i don't think anything significant has changed. >> is there anything you see that makes you a little optimistic? >> what makes me optimistic is that people are understanding this now, that main street gets it, you know, the thing that i found compelling about the occupy wall street movement was that it seemed to be tapping into this anger. previous to that there was just this kind of silence, you know, people were maybe too flabbergasted by what had gone on. this is a very complex crisis that was built over a long period of time. you have to connect the dots to understand it. and so we're writing history and helping people to understand what happened to them. but we still don't know it all and until we do we can't really protect ourselves going forward. but i do get a sense that there is anger, that there is rage and that maybe, maybe, just
states government, the federal reserve, the treasury, banks, private institutions, as well, to prevent us from really learning the full extent of this. and so here we are, we're still uncovering things that we didn't know back in 2008, 2007. so no, i don't think anything significant has changed. >> is there anything you see that makes you a little optimistic? >> what makes me optimistic is that people are understanding this now, that main street gets it, you know, the thing that i...
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states. >> there are 16 million union members. >> private and public? >> private and public. the organized labor needs to look to educate those 16 million people, because it's not simply about building alliances between the leaders of different unions and various community organizations or social movements. it's thathe mmbers ofhe unions have to feel themselves that they're part of something larger. people have to have that bigger picture. unions can do that. they should be doing it now. but that necessitates putting resources that many leaders feel could best go elsewhere. >> it's too easy to blame the bad guys. that sort of corporations try to destroy unions 'cause that's what they do. is that the labor movement, really for 30 years, 40 years, has, with, you know, with some exceptions of great work, not been focused on organizing private stor rkers. it's not been focuse and i think workers are much more likely to organize if they think the consequence of organizing is life gets better than you get your brains blown out, which is really, when i knock o
states. >> there are 16 million union members. >> private and public? >> private and public. the organized labor needs to look to educate those 16 million people, because it's not simply about building alliances between the leaders of different unions and various community organizations or social movements. it's thathe mmbers ofhe unions have to feel themselves that they're part of something larger. people have to have that bigger picture. unions can do that. they should be...
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>> well, in the citizens united era, we're moving dangerously close into a kind of corporate state mentality, where the corporations operate with impunity in the supreme court. and they're now endowed not with personhood rights, as some people think, but super personhood rights. because they have all kinds of protections that ordinary human beings don't have, like limited liability and perpetual life. and they continue to, you know, accrue wealth through the generations. but now they're given political free speech rights that people theoretically have. but of course, most american citizens don't have millions of dollars to spend in politics. but the corporations do. and it's, you know, a matter of chump change for them to put several million dollars into a campaign that could, you know, very much affect the direction of public policy. >> you live in new york, kaina, if you were explaining to another straphanger on a moving subway the impact on that person's life of citizens united, what would you tell her before the next stop? >> what's misunderstood is that money is not an abstraction. mone
>> well, in the citizens united era, we're moving dangerously close into a kind of corporate state mentality, where the corporations operate with impunity in the supreme court. and they're now endowed not with personhood rights, as some people think, but super personhood rights. because they have all kinds of protections that ordinary human beings don't have, like limited liability and perpetual life. and they continue to, you know, accrue wealth through the generations. but now they're...
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states-- as sense of community-- that in the united states, people will respond to that. if we lose that as a country, then i think we're going to lose a lot of the greatness that has defined us and the ability to progress in such a beautiful way; the way that the countr has over these last several generations. >> hinojosa: but if your mom was kind of understanding politics at a place where there were a lot of divisions and she was prepared, in essence, to dive into controversy and to kind of push the envelope, what... how do you say... what do you say to this younger generation that is saying, "mr. mayor, we as young latinos or young activists see problems on our horizon. we have a latino drop-out rate that's not 75% but it's 50%, we have, you know, crisis in teenage pregnancy, we have, you know, poverty." what do you say to them when they're saying, "it's important for us to be angry and to be putting... pushing the envelope now in the year 2011"? >> i say a couple of things. first, that the best thing that folks can do to alleviate those challenges or those problems is
states-- as sense of community-- that in the united states, people will respond to that. if we lose that as a country, then i think we're going to lose a lot of the greatness that has defined us and the ability to progress in such a beautiful way; the way that the countr has over these last several generations. >> hinojosa: but if your mom was kind of understanding politics at a place where there were a lot of divisions and she was prepared, in essence, to dive into controversy and to...